January 6, 2017

A Taste of Ian Welsh

For the full post you click here, or just read the excerpt below. In either case you will probably be hooked by the brilliant mind of Ian Welsh.

“A civilization ends when it can’t handle problems that are totally obvious, because its ideology won’t allow it to deal with them. In our case, the ideology is economics and capitalism, which insists that decisions must be made based on what maximizes profit. Our ideology doesn’t recognize that profit is a social construction, and doesn’t take into account all the upsides or downsides of doing anything. This, combined with our moral belief that money is ‘good,’ and that the more money you have the better you are, is killing our civilization.”